“I’m doing this series for one reason,” says Clark at the top of the show – “to introduce you, the American people, to the individuals that sacrifice so much for all of us.”

The series is billed on its website as a “fast-paced competition” whose contestants “will gather at a remote training facility where they will be challenged to execute complicated missions inspired by real military exercises.”

“Stars Earn Stripes” says it “pays homage to the men and women who serve in the U.S. armed forces and our first-responder services.”

Archbishop Desmond Tutu delivers a speach during an institutional celebration on the eve of South Sudan's independence first anniversary, at Nyakuron Cultural Centre in Juba on July 8, 2012. Nobel Peace Prize laureate Desmond Tutu today appealed for peace in troubled South Sudan, on the eve of the country's first anniversary. Tutu was speaking to political, military and religious leaders from the world's youngest nation, where looming conflict with the rump state of Sudan and dim economic prospects cast a pall over celebrations. Credit: AFP/Getty Images

The letter, sent Monday to Clark, NBC boss Robert Greenblatt, producer Mark Burnett and others connected with the show, argues “this program pays homage to no one anywhere” and criticizes it for “trying to somehow sanitize war by likening it to an athletic competition.”

The show is “a massive disservice to those who live and die in armed conflict and suffer its consequences long after the guns of war fall silent,” the Nobel laureates, said in a letter, which was sent to reporters Monday by the Nobel Women’s Initiative, a group created in 2006 by six female Nobel Peace Prize winners.

“Trying to somehow sanitize war by likening it to an athletic competition further calls into question the morality and ethics of linking the military anywhere with the entertainment industry in barely veiled efforts to make war and its multitudinous costs more palatable to the public,” the nine continued.

The letter calls for NBC to stop airing the series.

NBC, responding to the charges, said that “Stars Earn Stripes” is “about thanking the young Americans who are in harm’s way every day.”

“This show is not a glorification of war, but a glorification of service,” NBC said in a statement.